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tubus fructifer globosus, Isevissimus, subbaccatus. Vegetatio fruticosa,
terminalis, ramis (iiiflorescentiis depauperatis) spiuescentibus. Tlores-
centia adsceudens !
23. S. spinosa, L. (sub Poterio), Bertol., De Cesati.
spinosum, Spach.
—
Sarcopoterium
Bencomla, Webb, Phjtogr. Canar. ; Beuth. et Hook. Geu. PL (Po-
ierii sect. Leiopoteriiim, De Cand. ex p.) omni jure a Sangumrba
separatur. Flores dioici : inasculi calyce quadripartite absque tube,
staminibus uuiaerosis irao calyci insertis ; ferainei carpidiis 2-4. Tu-
bus calycis fiiictifer globosus, Isevissimus, cum aclieniis osseis in
di'iipam 2-4--locularem concretus. Vegetatio arborescens. Spicte
axillares elongatae. Florescentia adsceudens.— Species 3 Canarieuses :
B. caudata. Ait. (sub Poterio), et B. Moqidniana, Webb et Berth.
Species Sanguisorbae, nobis incognitas, quoad sectionem dubise sunt
S. cUandra, Wall, (an e sect. Poteridii ?) et Poterium Indiciim, Gardn.
ex ins. Ceylon.
NEW PUBLICATIONS.
Bei Piinglii Sospetti e Velenosi del Teiritorio Senese. Per Francesco
Valenti-Seriui, Dottore in Medicina, ecc. ecc. Turin : 1S68. Fol.
Before Dr. Valenti-Seriui had commenced writins: this book on sus-
pected and poisonous Fungi, he should at least have learned something
about the genus Agaricus ; and before he began the illustrations he
might, for his own sake, have taken some lessons in rudimentary draw-
ing. For what information can we expect from one who is totally igno-
rant of the subgenera of Agaricus, unacquainted with the colour of the
spores, cannot tell a brown- or purple-spored Agaric from a white-
spored one, and who ignores such genera as Russula and Marasmiiis ?
The plates, fifty-six in number, and " carefully 'coloured after nature,"
are the worst we have ever seen ;
.they not only display an ignoi'ance of
drawing of which a school-girl would be ashamed, but the gaudy co-
lours are daubed on with such an unsparing hand, that the drawings,
if depended upon, would be sure to mislead. Few botanical subjects
require such minute attention to subtile details as Fungi ; but here
they are so coarsely and falsely drawn, and so incorrectly coloured,
as to make it difficult to believe thev were taken from nature at all.
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